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If You Believe Me

This is the End

(If You Want It)

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And that's the album

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Forget and Not Slow Down is the sixth full-length studio album by American rock band Relient K, released on October 6, 2009.

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It is the band's first album since the departure of longtime drummer Dave Douglas at the end of 2007. Ethan Luck was his replacement as the drummer for the band.

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The album is also the first Relient K album with Mono Vs Stereo and their first on Jive Records. The album was produced by Mark Lee Townsend and mixed by Andy Wallace.

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In early 2009, Relient K's vocalist Matt Thiessen, secluded from the rest of the world in Winchester, Tennessee, began to write music for three months on an album to be released later in 2009.

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About being isolated Thiessen stated, "It was awesome. You could think about something, and keep thinking about it, and no one would interrupt you for six or seven hours. You could keep your brain on one train of thought. I’ll never want to write another record any other way."

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An influence for the album was the band's lead singer, Matt Thiessen, and his fiancee, Shannon, breaking up in late 2008.

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Thiessen stated that they were keen on finishing the album for a 2009 release and had begun recording the new album with their "favorite" producer, Mark Lee Townsend and mixer Andy Wallace.

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Guitarist Matt Hoopes stated about Mark Lee Townsend that, "We’ve got an almost telepathic relationship."

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On March 23, 2009, the band started recording at Dark Horse Recording Studio in Franklin, Tennessee, which Hoopes states is his "favorite studio."

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The band had used the likes of synthesizers and MIDI before; but Thiessen stated that every instrument on this album "It’s organic. I know a lot of bands do that now. But for us, it was really the first time we made it the real thing."

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On May 5, 2009 the band announced via the Air 1 website that The Almost and Relient K were in the same studio and stated the band members were swapping gear to record both band's albums.

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With the bands in the studio together, Aaron Gillespie would record vocals for the album which was confirmed with the release of the track listing and the guest vocalists.

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On May 8, 2009, Thiessen announced on his Twitter account that the new album would be called Forget and Not Slow Down, which will also be the title of a song on the album.

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The following day, while at Glory at the Gardens at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, they announced that the album should be released around October.

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I getting sore throooat

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On July 9, 2009 Gotee Records announced on Twitter that Forget and Not Slow Down was to be released on October 6, 2009 and provided a flyer via TwitPic.

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Oh noooo

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On August 4, 2009 the announcement of the album's completion was made via Thiessen's Twitter account which simply stated "Ding! Album's done."

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On August 20, the track listing and cover art were released to AbsolutePunk.net, in addition to the information that the first single is the title track, and that it in fact had already been released to some Christian radio stations.

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When Thiessen released the track listing, he announced that the missing numbers on the track list are interludes. The interlude titles were posted on Gotee Records' pre-release page for the album. The song "Therapy" was released to Hot Adult Contemporary radio stations on October 19.

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Four webisodes were released weekly via the band's MySpace and Facebook pages, showing the recording progress in the studio.

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The album has also been released on vinyl record (pressed at United Record Pressing in Nashville, TN). The vinyl record itself was for sale on their tour with Paramore and fun. and is now offered on their webstore as a bundle package with a carrier bag and wooden case.

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(I got to go to one of their tour stops for my birthday. It was awesome. I went to see Relient K and ended up falling in love with Paramore while I was there)